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...wife on a Taipei cable channel in our Hong Kong home when the doorbell rang. It was our neighbors, a Taiwan family - husband, wife and their two children; they didn't have Taiwan TV and wished to follow the election on ours. As Ma pulled away from his opponent Frank Hsieh, the voice of the anchorwoman was drowned out by their cheers. The following morning my family and I joined a group of mainland, Indonesian and Singaporean Chinese friends for a hike; they went on and on about how wonderful...
...Chicago Medical Center as well. She has also served as chair of both the Chicago Transit Board and the Chicago Stock Exchange. But as Jarrett sees it, her most important position may be the role of honest critic for the man she hopes will be President. "I'm very frank, and I always tell them what I think," says Jarrett. "But that's probably easier to do when you're good friends...
...Sound of Music. The paparazzi would have already spotted her at 16 snogging a comely Danish acrobat who appeared with her in a stage production of Aladdin, and that would've been that. Instead, we've had to wait for her to tell us about it herself in a frank and fascinating memoir called Home (Hyperion; 339 pages...
...Apart from becoming a baseball player, what did you dream of doing as a child? -Soyeun Yang, Superior, Colo.Baseball is the only thing I ever wanted to do. When I was 16 years old, my brother Frank said, "You'd better become a catcher, because you're too big and fat to do anything else." Well, I took his advice. It was a quick way to get to the big leagues, and I've never regretted...
...equally important before the love of God and welcoming all in the community of the Church." Nonetheless, Allam's public conversion is another reminder that the Vatican is not shying away from the more prickly questions in its complicated relations with Islam. Benedict has made what he calls a "frank" public conversation with the Muslim world a high priority of his papacy, arguing that Islam should address the violent minority within its ranks by incorporating the theories of "natural law" the way Christianity did with the Western ideas of the Enlightenment...